Last year, a rejuvenation took place for the elite amateur squad California Giant/Specialized and what a success it was with breakthrough rider Andrew Talansky. For its tenth year of existence, the team has continued with the youth trend and has taken the mantle of being a development team. “That’s the whole transition over the last…

The Scotts Valley Grand Prix kicks off with amateur races on Sunday, May 15th, 2011 at 1:00PM. The main events of the Pro Women and Pro Men take to the start at 5:40PM and 7:50PM. respectively. This crit has an exciting drag race finish located at Canepa Design (4900 Scotts Valley Drive), Scotts Valley, California.…

Rubicon Cycling LLC is proud to announce the formation of Project London, an elite track cycling team, inspired, created and managed by Rubicon Cycling, LCC. Rubicon Cycling will carry on the mission of benefiting the LiveSTRONG organization while pursuing the development of young cyclists into champion professional athletes, fulfilling their dream of representing the United…

Good news. Not only has the Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove received a UCI rating of 2.2 for the men’s stage race but the organizer has added an NRC stage race for the women too. In previous years, the race offered two crits, not on the NRC, for the pro/1/2 women as part of…

Two weeks, I joined the California Giant/Specialized team at its training camp. On a beautiful day in Northern California, the riders tackled a 5 hours of riding that included Great Basin. Here are some photos from that ride.

In response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week, the athletes of Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 women’s professional cycling team have pledged to donate any race winnings from the upcoming San Dimas Stage Race to recovery efforts. The team would also like to challenge the entire pro women’s and men’s…

Finally, the 19 teams were announced for the Amgen Tour of California today. The list included the 18 teams already leaked to the race media partner, cyclingnews, earlier this year and one late addition: Movistar, the UCI Continental team out of Colombia and feeder team for the Movistar Pro Team. One can assume that the…

While cleaning up old folders, I found some photos from the 2005 San Francisco Grand Prix. What a great race that was. Fans lined 7 to 10 deep on Fillmore where the riders faced a wall of noise as they climb the steep Fillmore lap after lap. Amazing crowds estimated a half a million by…

et to know friends and teammates Kaitie Antonneau and Coryn Rivera of Team Peanut Butter Co TWENTY12. The two under-23 riders, who have competed against each other for most of the racing lives, became friends and are now teammates for the 2011 season. VIdeo.

Geoff Kabush. Laid-back, the man with the side-burns is a fierce competitor that can shotgun a beer in two seconds. A successful mountain biker that races cross for fun in the fall, a dog rescuer and a vocal proponent of clean cycling. Kabush is all that and more. One of the most successful riders on…

5 more teams were announced for the The Quiznos Pro Challenge today: Leopard Trek (Luxembourg), UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (USA), Team Type 1-sanofi aventis (USA), Skil-Shimano (Netherlands) and Team Spidertech Powered By C10 (Canada). These teams will join the 5 previously announced squads: Team RadioShack (USA), HTC-Highroad (USA), Team Garmin-Cervélo (USA), BMC Racing Team (USA),…

The Nature Valley Pro Ride – cycling’s version of “American Idol” – begins its 2011 talent search for the nation’s top amateur men and women on March 19-20 at the Fayetteville (Texas) Stage Race near Austin. The top amateur in the Men’s Pro/Category 1 race and the winner of the Women’s Open category from the…

CalGiant & Specialized are taking their winning combination and tradition into the 2011 Professional Mountain Bike Season. This marks the first time the two have joined forces to support a Mountain Bike Team. The Team will feature three of the top athletes from the Cal Giant/Specialized Elite Cyclocross Team: Cody Kaiser racing U23, Nick Weighall…

While the UCI moves forwards to ban race radios in World Tour races, USA Cycling has reversed the ban instituted last year. This means that teams can use race radios for the 28 races on the NRC schedule and and at the USA Cycling professional and elite road national championship events. Radios are still banned…

One of the new US-registered Continental teams, the RealCyclist.com Pro Cycling Team, has a point to prove in 2011. “We have a lot of riders who have a point to prove in a lot of different ways. Hopefully that will be channeled in the right direction and we’ll get the best out of everybody on…

The six-month countdown has started, and the 22 teams, 18 ProTeams and 4 Pro Continentals were named for the Grand Prix Cycliste races in Québec City and Montréal. The races will also be one lap longer each, for over 200km.

There are always multiple stories that emerge from a stage race and the MERCO Credit Union Cycling Classic was no exception. One obvious one was the BISSELL domination. Another one was the smart racing of John Bennett of the California Giant Berry Farms/Specialized team. Only on his second year of racing of the road, the…

“Absolutely” mission accomplished for BISSELL said MERCO Credit Union Cycling Classic GC winner Ben Jacques-Maynes. “We had great outings all four days here, our hill climbers had a great outing on Thursday. The time trial crew performed spectacularly, just the entire really on the time trial, we got really good leadout practice in the crit…